ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

Temuka Leader, Issue 1564, 5 April 1887, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO MAIL

The Zealandia, with the S-m Francisco mail, arrived at Auckland at 8.30 a.m. on Saturday, having left ’Frisco oo March 13th at 3.30 p.m. She had very few passengers for Now Zealand. GENERAL SUMMARY. (Dates from Europe to March 13.) Christine Nillaon, the prima donna, who was married in Paris to Count Miranda on March 9th, will quit the stage. Rider Haggard, author of “She," a work making much noise in the world at present, is accused in the Pall Mill Gazette of plagirising most of it frjm Tom Moore’s “ Epicurean.” A London despatch of March 12lb says that the decided majority in the German Reichstag io favor of the Septeonate Bill, produced an immediate feeling of relief in the financial and commercial world. Mr Williamson, m litary correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, was arrested at Cracow, in Austrian Qallioia, in March, as a Russian spy. He was released aft r twelve hours duress.

Mr Geo. Augustus Sala has gone to Rome to remain till after the Spring. A draughtsman named Terry, in the employ of tbe Government, was arrest'd at Chatham on March Bth, charged with revealing important secret naval designs of Great B itain to the United States and Russian Governments. _ The American Legation denies complicity. Mr David R. Plunkett has refused in full earnest the petitions from leading Sabbatarians, to reverse his decision allowing Sunday boating in the London park. The new rule has been in operalion for some time time, and the innocent pastime is much enjoyed by the poorer classes of people. Parliament has been asked to grant another £250,000 for tha expenses of the navy. A supposed American lawyer named Anderson, one of the class that preys on credalous people in the United States by making them believe that immense sums in the English Chancery are awaiting claimants from America to share in the distribution, has been convicted of fraud in a London Court at 'he complaint of Mr Dakin, whom he swindled out of 5000 dollars. The prisoner was sentenced to five years’ penal servitude. The first Queen’s drawing-room for the season was held at Buckingham Palace on March 3rd. The attendance was greater than at any preceding affair of the kind during the long reigo of the Queen, and a number of debutantes were introduced. The weather was fine, and the crowds congregated in the parks and roadway around the palace numbered many thou* sands. The court officials say tbe recep* tion was the most brilliant they ever attended, Mr Thomas Ratsou, M.P. for llskeston division of Derbyshire, haa died. He was a Liberal Home Ruler, The Duchess of Richmond died on March Bth, The date of the Jubilee qelebmtioq is postponed fyom Motley. J« Qa 30th, till the following day, in order to suit court plans. The Duke of Westminster anti the Duke of Argyle have withdrawn from the honorary council of the American Exhibition, and the Prince of Wkl e 9 wijl decline the honorary presidency. It is learned that the exhibition is » purely priveie speculation. Severe snowstorms raged in the north of England, Ireland sud Scotland on March 11th. A number of i'essefs weye obliged to put ba«k fot ihiltwt

The Lo "ion Daily News says “ the only basis foi reports of dissension in the Cabinet in that Mr Goschen favors n sweeping Lind measur* 1 scheme, while his colleagues suppoit 'ess agrarian reforms.’' This different, says the News of March 9th, is in a fair way of being compromised.

AMERICAN SUMMARY. San Francisco, March 14. Charles H. Baiser, a poverty-striksn umbrella mender in Pittsburg, has received news, according to a den patch of March 4th, of * fortune of 225,000 dollars, left by a cousin in Australia named William Tutche. The other heirs are a sister who lives in Germany, and a brother who is Inspector of Police in Hamburg. Captain James W. Eads, an engineer of some fame, died at Nassal, near Providence, on March 6th, aged 66. Eads constructed the rauch-ulked-of jett’es to assist navigation at the mouth of the Mississippi Ri^ar. The sailing of the Zealandia was postponed from 11 o’clock till late, owing to delay in the arrival of the English mails. The British residents of San Francisco have concluded to endow a wing or ward of some hospital in the city as the bt'Bt permanent method of celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Queen Victoria’a reign, George A. Pullman, inventor and patentee of the American palace car, has haen knighted by the Kmg of Italy. A number of British Columbia Indians hare asked permission to settle in Alaska. While granting it the Un fed States Government say at the same time that they can have oulegal right to acquire lands, being foreigners. The President set aside a reserve for their occupation. John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, will make another trip to the P«cific Coast. The intention of his manager,as mentioned o i February 26th, is to work him to California, finally pul’ing up in Australis. Sporting men are inclined to believe that this trip has been arranged to avoid a meeting between Sullivan and Jem Smith, the English champion. James Russell Lowell, late American Minister to England, created a sensation in Chicago. A vast audience bad assembled at the Central Music Mall to hear his address on “ American politics," but at (he last uiomeui In* changed his mind and gave a dissertation on 14 Richard lII.’ . , The American flour irade is exercised over a London project to establish in Rio de Janiero a flour mi ling company with a capital of £500,000. It w proposed to carry grain from the Argentine Republic and Chili info Brazil, and mill it there. No duty is imposed on grain in ihat country, and hence the American flour trade would find if imposMb'o to compete. Cardinal Gibbons and the American Roman Catholic Bishops have sent a memorial to the Vatican endorsing (he order of Ihe Kniglds of Labor in the United States, nearly one third of whom, they say, belong to the Roman Church. Lord Salisbury is preparing a long despatch to the British Minister at Washington, relative to the Canadian fisheries dispute, admitted by Sir James Ferguson in the House of Commoca on the night of March 2nd to contain an element of interest not inferior to that in Egypt and Bulgaria. It ia believed Lord Salisbury’s despatch will lead to a gatisfncory adjustment of the trouble. The colony of Newfoundland defies the British Government on the fishing question. If not protected in their rights they will seek annexation with the United States. break on the New York elevated rail* road led to the death of more than ten persons by falling to the street below. The sanitary authorities of New York are alarmed about the • cholera, which is spreading in South America, A financial panic occurred in New Brunswick on March Bth. The principal failure was the Maritime Bank for 1,250,000 dollars.